CEDC is thrilled to announce that 4 of the 6 graphic design pieces entered in the 59th Annual GDUSA Design Awards are winning pieces. Of over 10K+ entries less than 10% are recognized as winning pieces. We are especially pleased that 3 of the winning pieces were in a new category called “Designing for Good”: This year…
This weekend I’ll be at the 4th Backdrop LIVE virtual “unconference,” involved in sessions related to the future of the Paragraphs module in the Backdrop CMS world, as well as a discussion on what “Config Recipes” could end up looking like to help site admins build out functionality much more quickly. Watch the short demo below to get a taste and then join us with your questions and ideas!
As part of the recent “Backdrop LIVE” virtual conference, we hosted a session giving a top-level overview of CiviCRM functionality and integration with Backdrop CMS.
Video conferencing usage has spiked during this pandemic, and while Zoom has gotten most of the press, there are some other options out there. One of them also happens to be open source: Jitsi. We’ve begun some early work on integrating Jitsi into an easy to use module for Backdrop CMS.
The quote at the bottom of March in our desktop calendar has been striking to me all month as the pandemic continues to unfold. Now that we’ve just turned the page to April I wanted to post it here: “Weaving involves two threads, one horizontal and the other vertical… Our broken, suffering world is bound…
Backdrop shares much of the deep integration with CiviCRM that Drupal 7 offers. This includes the ability to create dynamic views of CiviCRM content (e.g. filterable directories of contact info), the ability to sync membership status to a Backdrop role (e.g. members only content), and the power that Webform CiviCRM provides (e.g. forms that push…
At CEDC, we have a bias towards free and open source software solutions in our web development processes, for a variety of reasons which are both practical and philosophical. In practice, an open source project shares the source code that makes up the software and provides a license that allows modification and redistribution of the…
CiviCRM is an open source CRM (constituent relationship management) system that expands the functionality of your website in many different ways.
Mapping out a nonprofit use case for Backdrop CMS.
When you redesign a site, chances are that your structure may change and your URLs may change. If you don’t plan ahead, you could throw away a lot of the search engine optimization you may have already achieved. When a search engine comes back to index your site again after a redesign, it will find…
Tip #5: Making your site accessible will make your SEO job simpler.
Continuing our series of SEO tips, we come to what is probably the most important of all: add good content to the site, and add it regularly. You are developing this site for people, not for search engine robots…